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Not defending anything in particular. But at least in the books themselves it is explicit that magic is not a thing to figure out. You're either born capable of accessing magic or you aren't. A muggle can't reason their way into acquiring magic. The book's entire universe is based on the divide between those forced to exist within the confines of natural laws (muggles) and those capable of bending and breaking said rules to basically achieve whatever (wizards).
I'm fine with that. I'm not saying we should be able to "aquire" magic. I'm saying we're somehow incapable of even acknowledging its existence. If muggles can't perceive magic then what's the point of keeping it a secret.
Obviously that's not true because not only could Dursleys see magic but it was used on them, thus magic is observable and muggles would be trying to harness it because they wouldn't know they can't.
So it also somewhat makes sense why they'd have a secret society. But to keep it a secret you need know what the muggles are up to so they wouldn't discover your secret. You need something like an intelligence agency to keep track of muggles and intervene if they get close to the secret.
But you don't know how the muggle world works, so you don't know what the muggles are doing which means you can't intervene if they start to discover magic. If you can't prevent them from discovering magic why haven't they discovered magic?
That agency exists. It was Ron's dad entire job description.
That's exactly my point. It was his job to know and he barely knew anything. If there was someone trying to verify the existence of magic Ron's dad wouldn't be able to do anything about it because he wouldn't even understand what that person is doing.
I think it is sort of like the CIA, just because they have power it out rules any need for reason. They just obliviate everyone indiscriminately.